Psalms 114
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The Earth Trembles at God's Presence
1When Israel went out from Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of strange speech,
2Judah became his sanctuary, Israel his dominion.
3The sea saw and fled; the Jordan turned back.
4The mountains skipped like rams, the hills like young of the flock.
5What ails you, sea, that you flee, Jordan, that you turn back?
6Mountains, that you skip like rams, hills, like young of the flock?
7Tremble, O earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob,
8who turns the rock into a pool of water, the flint into a spring of water.
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The Earth Trembles at God's Presence
- parallel Psalms 77:11 — Both personify the sea/waters fleeing and trembling at God's presence in the Exodus.
- echoed in Deuteronomy 8:11 — Psalm echoes God turning the flinty rock into a spring of water.
- allusion Exodus 12:51 — Recalls the exodus event, Israel going out from Egypt.
- allusion Exodus 14:21 — 'The sea saw and fled' recalls the parting of the Red Sea at the exodus.
- allusion Exodus 17:6 — God turning the rock into water recalls the water from the rock at Horeb.
- allusion Joshua 3:13 — 'The Jordan turned back' recalls the crossing of the Jordan when its waters were cut off.
- allusion Numbers 20:11 — Water flowing from the flint/rock recalls Moses striking the rock at Meribah.
- thematic Exodus 19:18 — Mountains quaking recalls Sinai trembling at God's presence.
- thematic Psalms 96:9 — Shared call for the earth to tremble before the presence of the LORD.